In Unthinkable (2010) there is a moment where you see the screen of a bomb tech who is apparently using excel and random letters produced by keyboard mashing to defuse a bomb.
by DigitalRoman486
In Unthinkable (2010) there is a moment where you see the screen of a bomb tech who is apparently using excel and random letters produced by keyboard mashing to defuse a bomb.
by DigitalRoman486
39 Comments
truly unthinkable
Djkihkmcyu nxeukvsjcikyy by ghghghg
Still more realistic than the NCIS hacking scene with two people and one keyboard
hghghghghgh
Iknou
Excel can be just as confusing, stressful, and explosive.
[removed]
ririoruriefihefkuh
https://preview.redd.it/id9hycm2b2de1.png?width=719&format=png&auto=webp&s=ef2d07831d854d5c90d866ba86e692f7e048b12b
Nice
You can also see an expense xls in the bottom left of the laptop screen.
He’s asking Nelly and Kelly how to disarm the bomb
Is he using VLookUp!? Run! He’ll kill us all!
[HackerTyper](https://HackerTyper.com)
Excel has formulas for everything, even bomb diffusion
My favorite nonsense computer jargon was an episode of CSI: NY where one of the characters said, “Ill create a GUI in Visual Basic to track the IP address.” I had to pause the episode to laugh my ass off.
The bomb hates gibberish
Couldn’t even be bothered to bring up a DOS window for that shot.
All you need to do to solve world peace is put some fgrtfgrtgt in an Excel spreadsheet.
“I’m in!”
They’re using the Kelly Rowland program
Unthinkable, isn’t it? But it works.
Surely there’s a vlookup to make C4 not go boom..
Movie title is accurate.
Looking at the bottom right of the screen it, looks like the tab below it has the actual screenplay. I think they might have just grabbed the laptop from some producer
r/masterhacker
Is that the screenplay in a separate window?
Who’da thunk it…
“This man is playing Galaga.”
[deleted]
this is not the way to defuse a bomb?
My dad was an EOD Bomb Tech and defused MANY bombs in the early 1970s in Berlin as the head of the Berlin Brigade bomb disposal unit (there were several urban guerrilla movements active at the time).
He has always laughed at bomb defusal scenes in movies. He LOVES “Cut the RED wire, not the GREEN wire” scenes in movies. Absolute fucking stupidity. And also when someone plants a bomb and it has a blinking red light on it. WTF? How does this make sense to anyone?
There are literally thousands of “bombs” made an deployed every year; mostly in war zones. The overwhelming vast majority of bombs have no special “booby traps” or “codes needing to be solved”. They are simple devices designed to be (likely) hidden, and just do their job (blow shit and/or people up).
If a bomb tech encounters a bomb with various booby traps… they build a bunch of sandbag barriers around it and try to hit the detonator with some kind of disabling device; either a small explosive or a water jet etc. No one gonna try to defuse something like that.
Case in point the famous Harvey’s Casino bomb in Stateline Nevada 45 years ago. They devised this intricate bomb with false and real levers that could be used to disarm it, as long as the bomber’s ransom was met. But who the fuck would trust a bomber that their instructions would be correct? They did the right thing and tried to use some shaped charges to blow the detonators away from the explosives but it didn’t work and the whole thing blew up. But they were not gonna monkey around with a booby trapped bomb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z6xYAV2iO0
Guys for reasons involving national security and top secret clearances i cant explain how i know but with 100% certainty i can say thats how you do it.
r/itsaunixsystem
To be fair, I played 33C’s ririoruiefihefkuh in scrabble just last week so that’s very much a word.
Didn’t get the triple word score though.
Personal favourite is in Criminal Minds (I think), dudes says “We got the hard drives right here” and holds up a fuckin doorstop PSU
One of my all-time favourite films. Make sure you see both versions (different endings).
It reallt is unthinkable